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(v.) = cut + punches, cast + type

Ex. In the earliest days of printing one or two printers may have cut their own punches, but even then most punch-cutters appear to have been specialist engravers such as die-sinkers or goldsmiths.

Ex. They were cold-metal machines, which set pre-cast type, as distinct from the later hot-metal machines which cast fresh type as they went along.

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(v.) = cut + punches, cast + type

Ex: In the earliest days of printing one or two printers may have cut their own punches, but even then most punch-cutters appear to have been specialist engravers such as die-sinkers or goldsmiths.

Ex: They were cold-metal machines, which set pre-cast type, as distinct from the later hot-metal machines which cast fresh type as they went along.